Main Cast: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, Natalie Press, Andrew Armour
Release Year: 2006
Country: UK/DK
Run Time: 113 minutes
Plot
A woman paid to watch others begins stalking one of the men she's been trailing in this thriller from Scotland. Jackie (Kate Dickie) is a woman who has buried herself in her work with a security company since the death of her husband and child. Jackie's work involves monitoring a crime-ridden corner of North Glasgow with a bank of closed circuit television cameras; after her shift is over, she either goes home or has an occasional assignation with a friend from work who isn't happy with his wife. While watching the comings and goings in a run down apartment block, Jackie spies Clyde (Tony Curran), a handsome former jailbird who shares a shabby flat with his buddy Stevie (Martin Compston) and April (Natalie Press), Stevie's girlfriend. Jackie becomes fascinated with Clyde, and after carefully following his routines through her cameras she meets him face to face at a local bar, and soon lures him into a relationship. However, in time Clyde discovers neither love nor lust is the motivating factor behind Jackie's actions. The first feature film from award-winning director Andrea Arnold, Red Road received its world premier at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Kahleen Crawford - Casting, Carole K. Millar - Costume Designer, Andrea Arnold - Director, Nicolas Chaudeurge - Editor, David M. Thompson - Executive Producer, Paul Trijbits - Executive Producer, Gillian Berrie - Executive Producer, Claire Chapman - Executive Producer, Lenny Crooks - Executive Producer, Sisse Graum Jorgensen - Executive Producer, David Goodall - Fights Choreographer, Rod Young - Fights Choreographer, Helen Scott - Production Designer, Robbie Ryan - Cinematographer, Carrie Comerford - Producer, Martin Belshaw - Sound/Sound Designer, Andrea Arnold - Screenwriter
Red Road is a 2006Britishfilm directed by Andrea Arnold. It tells the story of a CCTV security operator who observes through her monitors a man from her past. It is named after, and partly set at, the Red Road flats in Barmulloch, Glasgow, Scotland which were the tallest residential buildings in Europe at the time they were built[1]. It is shot largely in a Dogme 95 style, using handheld cameras and natural light.
Red Road is the first film in Advance Party, a projected trilogy following a set of rules dictating how the films will be written and directed. They will all be filmed and set in Scotland, using the same characters and cast. Each film will be made by a different first-time director.[2]
Jackie works as a CCTV operator for Glasgow City council. Daily she watches over a small part of the world, takes seriously her duties to protect the people moving about in her monitors. Then one day a man appears in her monitors, a man she thought she would never see again. Now the opportunity presents itself, she is compelled to confront him.
